Regin for cotton and other fibrous material



w. E. COLLINS. REGIN FOR COTTON AND OTHER FIBROUS MATERIAL.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 9, I919.

Patented Apr. 11, 1922.

WILLIAM E. COLLINS, OF HOUSTON, TEXAS.

BEGIN non COTTON AND OTHER m nnows MATERIAL;

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented v11 1922 Application filed September 9, 1919. Serial No. 322,646.

To all whom} it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM CoLLINs, citizen of the "United States, residing at Houston, in the county of Harris and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Regin for Cotton and other Fibrous Material, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates. to new and useful improvements in a regin for cotton and other fibrous material.

One object of the invention is to provide a machine of the character described specially adapted for use in reginning and re conditioning cotton. In handling baled cot- -ton as it comes from the gin, and particularly in compressing the same there is a certain amount of waste, and low grade cotton thrown aside as'unfit to enter the com pressedbale, andjit isthe object of this in- .vention to provide a machine by means of .which this waste andlow grade cotton may be re-conditioned and prepared for market and the grade thereof materially improved.

' Another object of this invention is'to provide a machine of the character described which is of simple construction and which may be cheaply and easily manufactured and readily applied to the ordinary gin now in common use.

With the above and other objects in view the invention has particular relation to certain novel features of construction, operation and arrangement of parts, an example of which is described in this specification and .illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherein Fig. 1 is a longitudinal sectional view, and

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary plan view of the gin saws, showing their driving means.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, wherein like numerals of referonce designate similar parts in each of the,

figures, the numeral 1 designates the casin or framewor as ;a whole. Rotatably mounted wlthm this casing are the transverse shafts 2 and 3, which are rotated in.

the directions indicated by the arrows, in Fig. 1, therformer, in practice having-a greater speed than the latter. The shaft 3 is driven through the pulley 15, fixed thereon, and is 'operatively connected with, and drives, the shaft 2, through the large and of r the other. Shaft.

'which it is carried to small gears 16 and 17, fixed on'said respec ranged in staggered relation so that the between those saws of one shaft will work Underneath these saws there lsarranged a travelling endless belt or apron 8, onto which the cotton is fed from the'hopper 9 and which delivers loose and'flufiy mass relievingthe fiber of lumps and knots and densely compacted masses and rendering the same loose and clean. In front of the sawsG andabove the saws 7 are the respective drum-like rota-- table brushes 10 and 11, which rotate in the directions indicated by the arrows in Fig. 1.

These brushes are located adjacent the inlet ends of the respectivelintflues l2and 13 and generate an air and the lint cotton isbrushed fromth'e ad jacent saws, by said brushes andv then carried by the air current through said fines and delivered to the conveyor flue M through the condenser (not shown). 1

A device of the character described including a framework, a plurality of transverse rotatable shafts mounted therein, circular saws'fixed on each shaft and spaced apart, and revolving in opposite directions. the saws of one shaft being staggered rel ativ'e tothose of the other shaft and working between them, one of'said saws revolvmg at a each setof saws, a lint flue, disposed with its inlet end adjacent each brush and a conveyor flue into which the lint flues discharge.

' Intestimony whereof I have name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. i j

' WILLIAM COLLINS. iWitnesses: i

E. V. HARDWAY, IRENE BRUNS.

earanr GEE-mi being spaced apart the ,same' withm range of the feedsaws 5 which carry.-

signed my SO current therethrough greater speed than the other, a ro-" tatable cylindrical brush arrangedadjacent. 

